I don't know about you, but in Missouri it's already jacket weather most days. Winter seems to last forever here in the Midwest, so Emma and I put together three fun ways to dress up a winter coat! With these tips you can add cute details and "spice up" your winter coat throughout the cold weather season. We used this yellow coat c/o Francesca's Collections. It's adorable and warm, while still lightweight. See the above photo for a look at the coat before any accessories are added.
Tip 1: Tie a silk scarf around the collar of your coat. You can keep a small stash of scarves that coordinate with your coat in your closet and wear different ones for different occasions!
Tip 2: Don't forget vintage brooches. I love collecting these enamel brooches! They are perfect for a winter coat because they can be heavy and a coat is durable enough to support them. They're so cute and add the perfect bit of vintage to a winter outfit!
Tip 3: Add a bow tie. You can add any clip on bow tie to a winter coat. I made this bow myself using this method! If you don't have one, try making one with velvet ribbon for a super cute nod to the 1960s!
Have a lovely day! elsie
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Thanks for these great ideas. Sometimes wearing the same winter coat day after day gets boring, this will help mix things up a bit!
I love that coat!!! And…great ideas. I hadn’t thought ab wearing a scarf like that. I’m planning on wearing my grandma’s enamel flower pins like that 🙂
Love the yellow, especially with the bow tie!
Those are adorable ideas. Is this really your winter coat? You wouldn’t last very long with a coat like that in my city (Ottawa) during winter!!! In January and Feburary it can drop as low as -45 celsius with the wind chill. But fortunatly I have a nice coat on which I can easely pin vintage brooches Yeeee!
Winter does seem to last forever over here! I’m always on the lookout for cute brooches for my coats, maybe it’s time to add a bow tie 🙂
What a great coat, and the ideas aren’t to bad either! I’m accessory challenged myself, but I’m working on that!
I love the brooches! The color of the coat is also great
Too cute ideas, Elsie. I love the scarf one the most 🙂
Love and Turtledoves,
Jacqueline
Love the brooches and the scarf! I actually have quite a collection of both so this is really perfect for me!
Thanks!
I love the brooches and the bow! Very cute because I generally just dress up my coats with scarves, now I have a new project!
-meesch
http://www.aperfectkindofday.com
that’s so clever! And that yellow looks so good on you!
Hope you have a good day
XO
So cute! Great ideas!
Love the color of that coat with the red scarf! So cute!
Cute! love the jacket – in the UK it always seems to be jacket weather! haha
Fun ideas! I was just thinking about how in the winter nobody ever sees anything but my coat. Now they can see my scarf and brooch collections, too! 🙂
love the broaches – so so cute!
-grace
http://herumbrella.com
I love the bow! Adds an extra feminine touch and the mix of warm autumnal colours really complements the winter coat! 🙂
Great and fun ideas to customize your coat! I’ll definetly try to do a bow!. I’ve jus bought a cheap blue antracite dress and I am so excited about making a nice brooch to spice it up.
Besos from Spain!
Pilar
http://secondopilar.blogspot.com/
I’m a huge fan of tying my scarves in a bow on my trench. You can change it to co-ordinate with your outfit and it adds that “je ne sais quoi” that people really notice. Plus it’s supper cute!
Love the broach idea!
Emilie
http://www.liveeatsmile.blogspot.com
Well I’m definitely inspired to begin the search for vintage brooches now. I’m excited!
cute coat! I love yellow!!!
I love these ideas! I have pinned an antique brooch on my coat but the bowtie is just too cute. Thanks for the inspiration.:)
I love the brooches, and i actually make myself a few ones every winter. This year my winter coat is black, and i’ll wear with an owl i just sewed a few weeks ago.:)
The colour of that jacket looks so great with your hair! Beautiful!
xo
ZK
http://www.glitter-and-ink.blogspot.com
I love the idea of wearing a scarf around a coat’s collar! So simple, and yet, I’d never thought of it! Thanks! 😉
Hope you;re having a nice day!
Miki.
with that lovely yellow coat you must feel happy even on the coldest morning ~
I have tons of silk scarves and vintage brooches that I used to use to dress up my old handbags! These are so cute applied to your coat!
Love the ideas:)
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I have this coat in blue, thanks for the ideas on how to spice it up!
I never even thought of the bow tie!
Really cute for fall!
Thanks
-Andrea Lynne Rose Of Madness and Musings
I love the bowtie, that would be so cute with a cream coloured button down shirt too
Love these tips I’m sure to use them!
Lovedovesnest.blogspot.com
lovely ideas
I’m usually not one for yellow-y colors, but this coat looks great!! works beautifully with your hair 🙂
ah I’m one of those people who are always cold so I surely enjoy wearing Winter coats! thank you so much for the tips, girls!!
Where do you find such cute clothes!? Love the yellow.
Oooh those brooches are perfect!
very cool!
georgia
http://swonderfulgd.blogspot.com
Cute ideas,and i love the color of your coat 🙂
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I love the ideas that you have come up with to change up the look of a basic coat. Here in the UK, then weather is turning wintry so it is also time to investin a new coat. At the moment I am favouring a beautiful red pea coat, a little longer than your yellow coat. I look forward to making my purchase soon.
A girl after my own heart! Hooray for vintage pins and brooches! I never feel completely dressed without a pin on my lapel.
That color is beautiful, i loved the first one and the last one the most 🙂
Cute, love the versatility!
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Incredibly CUTE!!!
Lori
Ah well your comment! I did you good!
such cute ideas, you’re the best elsie!
These are such adorable and easy ideas, thank you for this post! It’s still a bit warm for jackets in Southern California, but I eagerly await the day I can layer a bit more 🙂 The brooches are my favorite, I think!
I love how creative you can be with the simplest of things. I adore the color of that coat! I live in a tropical country so we rarely have jacket days – maybe a few days in december, january and february.
A.d.o.r.a.b.l.e. coat! I want!
You dress your coats up and your outfits so well!!!
You are adorable! I’m so digging yellow! I’m not a fan of yellow either but I was actually looking at mustard peacoat the other day! Great ideas to give an old coat a new look!
Cute bow-tie! And that’s a great jacket. Love the yellow.
love love love!!! especially the brooches. <3
Oh yes, I often do a vintage brooch! Up here slightly north of you in Chicago we’re in full-on jacket mode, I’ve already worked my way into at least one level deep in my outerwear. So something to spice up a jacket is often necessary. 🙂
Nice ideas, I really like to dress up coats with scarfs. It’s beautiful & perfect to stay warm.
Thank you for this post! This really made my day and I have a bunch of drab coats.. and now I know how to make my own bows! Amazing.
The bowtie is my fav! 🙂
I love these simple ways to dress up a winter coat. You are so creative Elsie! Also, I absolutely adore that yellow coat you’re wearing 🙂 Hope you have a lovely day!
such cute ideas!! i really need to spice up some of my old coats and these are great ideas!
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Adorable! You are a dead ringer for Ally Sheedy in those shots!
Love the bow idea. Now I just need a fall coat!
The coat is great! Very cute outfits!
http://fromheretofashion.blogspot.com/
I love it! But what about a winter coat without a nice collar like that? My winter coat zips straight up my neck like a turtleneck.
thats awesome!
Love it! I need to get some pretty brooches now… to the thrift stores!
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ilbcnun2, I am fat, I actually zip up my jceakt to hide my fatness and hope to god I don’t have to take it off at school I wish people didn’t laugh at me because i’m fat, trust me fat people don’t show off their bodies.
how could we ever get tired of seeing these wuoferdnl vintage inspired creations! I love this- you’ve really captured the style of that era and wow on the wooden brooch-fabulous. How did you transfer the picture or did you repaint it onto the wood (sorry there are so many technical things that I’m clueless about!
Lovely vintage, never tire of it. This brocoh is such a lovely idea…..Beautifully done.Now I was just thinking of making a few Halloween brocohes myself whilst working with a software program.I guess my idea isn’t mine after all…lol : )
Frank, You take excellent piturces but I have tears in my eyes and believe me, they are not tears of joy. Those piturces are such a sad sad sight. I never would have recognized any of it. Are you sure you want to show the world what has happened to our home town? The only way I could get my bearings at all was to see where Shoney’s was located and go back towards Mt. Gay. I wish someone could find some copies of how it used to look- Anyone know which of these piturces would be where the carnival grounds were located? The carnival grounds were in the heart of Black Bottom but I can’t tell from the piturces where they were. I know the carnival grounds were at the foot of City View Hill where I grew up, but nothing in the piturces is the same. I couldn’t even find the foot of City View Hill. I did see one nice 2 story brick home still standing at Ellis Addition (near Baisden Brothers). That house is where my Girl Scout Leader lived in the 1940s. Thank you, Frank, for this website. The old piturces and our memories are the only parts of our childhood that are still beautiful and real.
so sweet! I love that the pumpkin pieecs are all over the floor. I can’t get enough of that face! As someone who can’t draw, I’m amazed that a few tiny lines and a little bit of color can capture so much expression and emotion!